It's a view echoed by Laura Crossley, who coordinates a cluster of 18 museums and sites across north Norfolk all taking part in the late-night festival.
His debut album, A Larum, is as much about love as it is about getting lost on the streets of north London.
The house, known as Fortress Fitt after security grills and an entry phone system were installed, was in an area of north Belfast patchworked with Protestant and Catholic enclaves, and notorious for the highest number of sectarian attacks in the province.
The reality is, however, that the French prison system is under great strain and faces totally new challenges related to geo-political tensions in north Africa and the Middle East.
Foffi said refugees' journeys typically started three months before arrival at the shores of north Africa, and involved hardships that saw around half of the travellers die.
It has been recommissioned for a fourth series, to be filmed next December and shown in early 2016, and he is secure enough now that he recently traded up his flat to a house with a garden in north London, though not to Shropshire, as he flat-out lied in a recent column for the Observer.
Now campaigners are appealing to countries across Europe, north America and the Caribbean to offer him a chance to continue his training if the Home Office attempts to put him on a plane back to Africa.
The government was offering "the most significant programmes of reform by a British government since the reforms of the 19th century", he said in his speech in north London.
Erect in his seat in a north London pub, his slim 6ft 5in wrapped in layers of fitted menswear, Blake drinks a coffee and indulges in that great British pleasure: the meandering, recreational moan.
One church in particular, Macrory Memorial, has lain derelict for nearly 40 years on the New Lodge/Tiger's Bay interface of north Belfast since subscribers to the church's weekly offerings dwindled to zero in 1973.
